Evan Rachel Wood accuses Marilyn Manson of driving her into a paranoic state by allegedly monitoring her and reading her emails in a clip from the second part of the upcoming doc, Phoenix Rising. The two-part HBO documentary debuts on HBO on Tuesday, with both parts available to stream on HBO Max the same day.
“Manson had hacked into my emails,” the Westworld actress says. “He was watching me, and he had people watching me, again under the guise of ‘This is for your own good.'”
Dan Cleary, one of the musicians’ former assistants,...
“Manson had hacked into my emails,” the Westworld actress says. “He was watching me, and he had people watching me, again under the guise of ‘This is for your own good.'”
Dan Cleary, one of the musicians’ former assistants,...
- 3/14/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
In the last several years, following terrific docs like “An Open Secret” “Prophet’s Prey,” and “West Of Memphis,” filmmaker Amy Berg has quickly become one of the premier documentarians in the field of abuse cases and injustices, often centering around stories of female exploitation and abuse. Her latest is HBO’s “Phoenix Rising,” a two-part documentary produced and directed by Amy Berg (“The Case Against Adnan Syed”), follows actress and activist Evan Rachel Wood (“Westworld”) as she takes her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational wounds, and reclaim her story.
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- 2/22/2022
- by Christopher Marc
- The Playlist
Watch: One-Hour Roundtable with Michael Moore, Alex Gibney and the Year's Most Daring Documentarians
Read More: Watch: Tarantino, Iñárritu and More Reveal Influences and Industry Issues in One-Hour Roundtable The Hollywood Reporter's excellent series of roundtable discussions continues today with the full 58-minute documentary roundtable, which includes six heavyweight panelists: Michael Moore ("Where To Invade Next"), Alex Gibney ("Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" and "Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine"), Amy Berg ("Janis: Little Girl Blue" and "Prophet's Prey"), Kirby Dick ("The Hunting Ground"), Liz Garbus ("What Happened, Miss Simone?") and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ("Meru"). Tackling topics and figures as controversial as college rape, Warren Jeffs, Steve Jobs, Scientology and more, these documentarians have often risked their lives and reputations to bring the truth to the big screen. "I hired a private detective; he was carrying a gun," said Berg...
- 1/25/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
In THR's latest roundtable talk, some of the premier documentarians of 2015 reflect on the state of their chosen form. Michael Moore ("Where To Invade Next"), Alex Gibney ("Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" and "Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine"), Amy Berg ("Janis: Little Girl Blue," "Prophet's Prey"), Kirby Dick ("The Hunting Ground"), Liz Garbus ("What Happened, Miss Simone?") and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ("Meru") sit down to chat for a fascinating talk. Read More: Amy Berg's Brutally Unsettling 'Prophet's Prey' When discussing documentaries, it's easy to forget that for all the stories about the tough production of "The Revenant," these filmmakers are also dealing with situations that could very easily turn dangerous. "Well, yeah, I'm afraid. But I reached a certain point where I had to just stop being afraid, and I got rid of the...
- 1/25/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Amy Schumer's very good year just got even better.
The actress/writer/producer already has an Emmy and Peabody on her shelf, and she's up for a Golden Globe. Now, she's also vying for a Writers Guild of America award.
The guild announced the 2016 nominees for theatrical and documentary screenplays, and Schumer notched a nod for writing the summer hit comedy "Trainwreck," which she also starred in.
Also receiving original screenplay nominations were the blockbuster hip-hop drama "Straight Outta Compton" and this award season's frontrunner, "Spotlight."
Here is the full list of WGA nominees:
Original Screenplay
Bridge of Spies
Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen; DreamWorks Pictures
Sicario
Written by Taylor Sheridan; Lionsgate
Spotlight
Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy; Open Road Films
Straight Outta Compton
Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff; Universal Pictures
Trainwreck...
The actress/writer/producer already has an Emmy and Peabody on her shelf, and she's up for a Golden Globe. Now, she's also vying for a Writers Guild of America award.
The guild announced the 2016 nominees for theatrical and documentary screenplays, and Schumer notched a nod for writing the summer hit comedy "Trainwreck," which she also starred in.
Also receiving original screenplay nominations were the blockbuster hip-hop drama "Straight Outta Compton" and this award season's frontrunner, "Spotlight."
Here is the full list of WGA nominees:
Original Screenplay
Bridge of Spies
Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen; DreamWorks Pictures
Sicario
Written by Taylor Sheridan; Lionsgate
Spotlight
Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy; Open Road Films
Straight Outta Compton
Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff; Universal Pictures
Trainwreck...
- 1/6/2016
- by Kelly Woo
- Moviefone
Oscar-nominated for her Catholic sex abuse doc "Deliver Us From Evil" (2006) and acclaimed for "West of Memphis" (2012), her deep-dive into Arkansas' imprisonment of the teenage West Memphis Three, prolific filmmaker Amy Berg has had a busy year. She debuted at Sundance 2015 her Mormon expose "Prophet's Prey" (September 18, Showtime) and at Doc NYC the controversial Hollywood sex abuse doc "An Open Secret," (June 5, Rocky Mountain Pictures), as well as debuting her first feature, psychological thriller "Every Secret Thing" (April 20, Starz), written by Nicole Holofcener and starring Diane Lane, which was buried in the scrum of indie features these days. It's easier in many ways to get attention for docs like her latest, the official Janis Joplin documentary "Janis: Little Girl Blue" (FilmRise, November 27) which Berg produced with Alex Gibney. I sat down in Toronto with Berg to discuss her...
- 11/18/2015
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Everything on TV last week retroactively fell under the shadow of what happened in Paris on Friday, which made the weekend shows feel like either a welcome escape or an act of mass commiseration. Last Week Tonight With John Oliver kicked off with the host addressing the terrorists with, "Fuck these assholes." Saturday Night Live — coming back strong from last week's Trump debacle — served up both remembrance and relief, with a touching bilingual nod to France. Even when television offered comfort food, we first had to say a somber grace.
- 11/16/2015
- Rollingstone.com
Read More: Meet the 2015 Sundance Filmmakers #4: Amy Berg Explores Brainwashing and Fear in 'Prophet's Prey' Chan Marshall, better known as Cat Power, will narrate director Amy Berg's upcoming Janis Joplin documentary, "Janis." Oscar-nominated Berg, who stunned audiences with "Deliver Us From Evil" and "West of Memphis," explores the rock star's life and stage persona through her own personal letters to her family and lovers and interviews with those who knew her. Cat Power gained popularity as a singer-songwriter for infusing a variety of sounds into her music. Some of her albums include "You Are Free," "The Greatest" and her most recent, "Sun." She has also had small acting roles, including Katya in "My Blueberry Nights" alongside Jude Law and Norah Jones. "After attempting to get this film off the ground for 7 years, I am ecstatic that the film is finally ready to be seen," said...
- 7/29/2015
- by Kaeli Van Cott
- Indiewire
Karen Gillan joins jury Photo: Courtesy of Eiff Karen Gillan, Natascha McElhone and Jessica Hynes have been announced as jurors at the 69th Edinburgh Festival.
They will help select the winners in the five award categories - The Michael Powell Award for Best British Film; Best Performance in a British Feature; Best International Feature; Best Documentary; and Best Short Film.
The jury roster also includes La Times film critic Kenneth Turan, American Film Institute director Jacqueline Lyanga, directors Amy Berg and Kyle Patrick Alvarez and actors Archie Panjabi, Denis Lawson and Dolly Wells.
Doctor Who star Gillan will see her directorial debut, short film Coward, have its world premiere at the festival. Fellow jurors Berg is also attending with her films Prophet's Prey and Every Secret Thing, while Alvarez is bringing his Stanford Prison Experiment. Wells is starring three films in the festival line-up - Black Mountain Poets, Doll & Em 2 and 45 Years.
They will help select the winners in the five award categories - The Michael Powell Award for Best British Film; Best Performance in a British Feature; Best International Feature; Best Documentary; and Best Short Film.
The jury roster also includes La Times film critic Kenneth Turan, American Film Institute director Jacqueline Lyanga, directors Amy Berg and Kyle Patrick Alvarez and actors Archie Panjabi, Denis Lawson and Dolly Wells.
Doctor Who star Gillan will see her directorial debut, short film Coward, have its world premiere at the festival. Fellow jurors Berg is also attending with her films Prophet's Prey and Every Secret Thing, while Alvarez is bringing his Stanford Prison Experiment. Wells is starring three films in the festival line-up - Black Mountain Poets, Doll & Em 2 and 45 Years.
- 6/5/2015
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
With just two feature-length documentaries under her belt, 2006’s "Deliver Us from Evil," an exploration of a Catholic priest sex abuse cover up and 2021’s "West Of Memphis," an examination of failed justice in the case against the West Memphis Three, director Amy Berg has quickly risen to the top of the names working in the field. And if you add two not-yet-released, but equally superb documentaries — “An Open Secret” and “Prophet's Prey,” both coming out later this year — a portrait emerges: one of the best documentary filmmakers working today, period. And she’s branching out, too. Berg’s first narrative effort, “Every Secret Thing,” is a reworking of Laura Lippman’s crime novel of the same name. Adapted to the screen by celebrated filmmaker Nicole Holofcener ("Enough Said," "Please Give"), the thriller is a complex and dense police procedural about how crime impacts a community and offers myriad points of view.
- 5/14/2015
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Read More: Watch: Amy Berg Explores Polygamy in Exclusive Sundance 'Prophet's Prey' Clip Filmmaker Amy Berg has found remarkable success as the documentarian behind acclaimed hits such as the Oscar-nominated "Deliver Us From Evil," but she's about to change things up considerably with her first feature-length drama, "Every Secret Thing." Fortunately for Berg, she's got a handful of Hollywood's most successful women on her side, including screenwriter Nicole Holofcener, producer Frances McDormand and stars Elizabeth Banks and Dakota Fanning. The psychological crime thriller revolves around a detective (Banks) who failed to save the life of a missing child from the hands of two young girls (Fanning and Danielle Macdonald). Eight years after the initial incident, another child goes missing in the same town just as the two convicted girls are released from juvenile detention. As the detective races to prevent history from repeating itself, she gets...
- 4/15/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
It's been around 150 years since we gave much respect to Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle's so-called Great Man Theory of history. While there are unquestionable great men and great women who helped shape culture and history, the number of great men and women who made impacts that are worth studying outside of the context of their society is virtually nil. It's not an interesting or accurate way to view history and, as a result, we don't give credence to people who try it. It's even less informative to view tragedy through an Awful Man Theory. It's almost inconceivable to imagine an interpretation of World War II, for example, that said, "So Germany was just going along fine and then Hitler came and ruined everything." As monstrous as Hitler was, you'd never write a story of Nazi atrocities in which you reached the end and said, "And it was all Hitler's fault.
- 1/27/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
Oscar-nominated documentarian Amy Berg has taken viewers behind the stories of a convicted priest ("Deliver Us From Evil"), Hollywood sex abuse scandals ("An Open Secret") and the West Memphis Three ("West of Memphis"), and now she's at it again in her latest film "Prophet's Prey," set to premiere Monday at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in the Documentary Premieres section. Berg's new documentary explores the life and crimes of Warren Jeffs, the president and self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Flds). As a cult leader, Jeffs bridged the gap between sister wives and justified rape, blurring the moral compass of his entire congregation. By the time of his his arrest in 2006, Jeffs was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List. He is currently serving a life sentence after being convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault of a child. In the exclusive clip below,...
- 1/23/2015
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Amy Berg was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2006 documentary "Deliver Us from Evil," which film tells the true story of Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady, who admitted to having molested and raped approximately 25 children in Northern California between the late 1970s and early 1990s. Her 2012 documentary, "West of Memphis," examines the story of the West Memphis Three, who were convicted as teenagers of the 1993 murder of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Last year, she premiered "An Open Secret" at Doc NYC, a film that documents the alleged sex abuse scandals in Hollywood. What it's about: "Prophet's Prey" is the story of Warren Jeffs, the so-called "Prophet" of the Flds church who leads his group of more than 10,000 followers from a prison cell in Palestine, Texas. What it's really about: "Prophet's Prey" is Really about the powerful operatives: brainwashing and fear. The film shows how these tactics...
- 1/13/2015
- by Casey Cipriani
- Indiewire
Announcements for the lineup for the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, taking place between January 22nd and February 1st, are starting to roll out. Watch this page for updates as more films and sections are revealed.
Premieres
Brooklyn (John Crowley, UK)
Digging for Fire (Joe Swanberg, USA)
Don Verdean (Jared Hess, USA)
End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt, USA)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda, USA)
Grandma (Paul Weitz, USA)
I Am Michael (Justin Kelly, USA)
I'll See You In My Dreams (Brett Haley, USA)
Last Days in the Desert (Rodrigo Garcia, USA)
Lila & Eve (Charles Stone III, USA)
Mississipi Grind (Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden, USA)
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, USA)
Seoul Searching (Benson Lee, USA/Korea)
Sleeping with Other People (Leslye Headland, USA)
Ten Thousand Saints (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, USA)
True Story (Rupert Goold, USA)
A Walk in the Woods (Ken Kwapis, USA)
Zipper (Mora Stephens, USA)
Documentary Premieres
Beaver Trilogy Part IV (Brad Besser,...
Premieres
Brooklyn (John Crowley, UK)
Digging for Fire (Joe Swanberg, USA)
Don Verdean (Jared Hess, USA)
End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt, USA)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda, USA)
Grandma (Paul Weitz, USA)
I Am Michael (Justin Kelly, USA)
I'll See You In My Dreams (Brett Haley, USA)
Last Days in the Desert (Rodrigo Garcia, USA)
Lila & Eve (Charles Stone III, USA)
Mississipi Grind (Ryan Fleck & Anna Boden, USA)
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach, USA)
Seoul Searching (Benson Lee, USA/Korea)
Sleeping with Other People (Leslye Headland, USA)
Ten Thousand Saints (Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, USA)
True Story (Rupert Goold, USA)
A Walk in the Woods (Ken Kwapis, USA)
Zipper (Mora Stephens, USA)
Documentary Premieres
Beaver Trilogy Part IV (Brad Besser,...
- 12/16/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
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